[Emeriti-faculty] SORRY! Seminar Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 2:30

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

Please note day and time:

Gayle Grant wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I just wanted to let you know of the upcoming seminar this week.
>
> *****************************************************************
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> TITLE:             "PLASMID STRINGS"
>
> SPEAKER:           ALBERTO IGLESIAS (UC DAVIS)
>
> WHEN:              TUESDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 2:30 pm
>
> WHERE:             250 ROBINSON HALL
>
> ABSTRACT:
>
> I'll introduce a particular class of fundamental string configurations
> in the form of closed loops stabilized by their internal dynamics. I'll
> describe their classical treatment and embedding in models of string
> cosmology, presenting the quantum version and the semiclassical limit
> that provides a microscopic description of a certain type of black rings.
> Finally, I will conclude by showing the parametric matching between the
> degeneracy of the string microstates and the entropy of the supergravity 
> solution.
>
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>
> See you all there,
>
>
>
> J.J.
>
>
>
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